Being One

"Self-referencing is the mind's tendency to locate itself. Anything that you can perceive is partial, and therefore cannot contain your whole self. So when it's realized that there is no self apart from the perceiving, then the tendency to try to find one's Self in any experience, insight or concept- ceases. This is why the highest attainment is not an experience, and it is not something perceivable. It is the death of trying to find yourself because there is no self apart from consciousness.

There is only perceiving, there is no body that perceives. When it is realized that there is no body perceiving and that perceiving is all that there is, then quite naturally the perceiving and what is perceived are seen to be two aspects of a unified whole, like heads and tails on a coin. Heads and tails on a coin cannot be separated.

The body is a sensing instrument of consciousness. Without the body and mind, the trees couldn't see themselves. Usually we think we are looking at a tree, but the tree is looking at itself through us. Without this instrument, the tree doesn't get to see itself. We are sensing instruments of the Divine."
~Adyashanti